• Loch Fyne Restaurant

     
  • Loch Fyne’s own fisheries and smokehouse provide its 30-plus restaurants countrywide with fresh fishy ingredients; we’ve always found dishes here competently and satisfyingly prepared, if a little by-the-numbers unadventurous. A starter of brandan orach smoked salmon was moist and densely flavoured, set off well by a garlicky aïoli. Three of the four kinds of marinated herring in a sampler platter tasted rather too much the same (essentially: vinegary), but were attractively presented on a moulded plate. Also pretty was a main of moules marinières, served in a heavy black dish, its lid removed with a flourish by a chummy, knowledgeable waiter. The highlight? The oysters: plump, delicious and tasting as if just plucked from the sea, served simply on crushed ice. The wine list is adequate – expectedly white-heavy, with plenty of choice by the glass. This branch in Covent Garden, like its sister restaurants, is styled with Fyne’s trademark pine-wood blandness: simple furniture, chalkboarded specials, nautical watercolours. But then simple is what Loch Fyne does best.

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  • 2-4 Catherine Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 5JS
  • Tel: 020 7240 4999
  • www.lochfyne.com
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  • Category: Fish
  • Travel: Covent Garden tube
  • Times: Meals served 10am-11pm daily
  • Price: Main courses £8.95-£17.95. Set meal (noon-6.30pm, 10-11pm) £11 2 courses
  • Credit cards: AmEx, MC, V
  • Services:
    • Child facilities: Babies and children welcome: children's menu; high chairs; nappy-changing facilities
    • Disabled: toilet
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